Petr Jehlička
Petr Jehlička
QUALIFICATIONS
1998 Ph.D., Social and Political Sciences, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University
1990 RNDr., Geography, Charles University, Prague
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sustainable Consumption; Alternative Sustainabilities; Geography of Knowledge Production; Diverse Economies; Formal and Informal Food Systems; Food Waste; Resilience; Sharing Economy; Environmental Politics; Temporality; Central and Eastern Europe.
RESEARCH PROFILE
My research, initially focused on East European green politics and environmental movements, evolved to explore the ‘Europeanization’ of environmental governance in new EU member states. Subsequently, I turned my attention to informal sustainable food practices in Eastern Europe at the household level, including food self-provisioning, sharing and foraging and their combination with securing food via market-based channels. Realising that Eastern Europe is an exceptionally fertile ground for this research, this work sparked interest in the geopolitics of knowledge production and context-dependent hierarchies of knowledge claims. This research agenda has been disseminated by a string of articles published, among others, in Progress in Human Geography, Journal of Rural Studies, Agriculture and Human Values and Geoforum. Maintaining these dual objectives, my current project RESOURCE investigates household food waste production and water consumption in Czechia and the Netherlands. It grapples with questions about where and how what is considered universal knowledge on sustainability is produced, communicated and accepted.
Journal Articles
2024 Gardening as a Responsible Leisure Activity: The Geography of Central European Food Self-Provisioning. Erdkunde, 78(4): 273-287. (co-author Daněk, Petr)
2024 Chinese food self-provisioning: Key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight. Agriculture and Human Values, 41: 647-659. (co-authors Ma, Huidi – Kostelecký, Tomáš – Smith, Joe)
2022 Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world. Nature Sustainability, 5(12): 1011-1017. (co-authors McGreevy, Steven R. – Rupprecht, Christoph D. D. – Niles, Daniel – Wiek, Arnim – Carolan, Michael – Kallis, Giorgos – Kantamaturapoj, Kanang – Mangnus, Astrid et al.)
2022 From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self‐provisioning. Sociologia Ruralis, 62(3): 651-671. (co-authors Daněk, Petr – Sovová, Lucie – Vávra, Jan – Lapka Miloslav)
2021 Beyond hardship and joy: framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-periphery. Geoforum, 126: 150-158. (co-authors Ančić, Branko – Daněk, Petr – Domazet, Mladen).
2021 Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Gardens. Sustainability, 13(9), 5193. (co-authors Sovová, Lucie – Daněk, Petr)
2021 The importance of recognizing difference: Rethinking Central and East European environmentalism, Political Geography, 87. (co-author Jacobsson, Kerstin)
2021 Eastern Europe and the geography of knowledge production: The case of the invisible gardener. Progress in Human Geography, 45(5): 1218-1236.
2020 Thinking food like an East European: A critical reflection on the framing of food systems. Journal of Rural Studies, 76: 286-295. (co-authors Grīviņš, Miķelis – Visser, Oane – Balázs, Bálint)
Book Chapters
2021 Beyond Confrontation: Silent Growers, Symbiosis, and Subtle Peasantness in Post-Socialist Eurasia. In: Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon – Dietz, Kristina – Engels, Bettina – McKay, Ben (eds.): Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 305-315. (co-authors Visser, Oane – Kuns, Brian)
2021 Quietly Degrowing: Food Self-provisioning in Central Europe. In: Nelson, Anitra – Edwards, Ferne (eds.): Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 33-44. (co-author Daněk, Petr)
Ongoing Projects and Grants
2024–2029 Research on Environmental Sustainability and on the Use of Resources in Central European Households (RESOURCE). Praemium Academiae, Czech Academy of Sciences (AP2303). Principal Investigator.
